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Article: 'Save my son' plea by father.
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- Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2008
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Byline: rasha al qahtani
A BAHRAINI father has made a fifth appeal in a bid to raise BD13,230 to help save his six-year-old son, who needs a spinal cord cultivation surgery.
Ali Mohammed has only managed to raise BD502 and needs help to send his son Abdulaziz to Jordan to cure him of a rare and painful disorder, which affects just one in a million people worldwide.
Abdulaziz was diagnosed with the blood disorder cyclic neutropenia when he was six months old and is plagued by recurrent infections.
He has a history of ear and tonsil inflammations every six to eight weeks as a result of low resistance to infection caused by low neutrophil ...